Tag: paulweitz
Critical Distance: A TRANSPARENT Look At MOZART IN THE JUNGLE
The sophomore slump poses a very real danger to critically-praised creative debuts. On the small screen, all one needs to do is point to HBO's True Detective, a show that dissolved into frustrating nothingness during its second season. Divorced from...
Black Nights 2015 Review: GRANDMA, Lily Tomlin At Her Finest
Lily Tomlin is having a renaissance, and we should all be thankful for that. A consummate performer and comedian, she has aged not only gracefully, but in strength as an actor. And her skills are on full display in Grandma....
Sundance 2015 Interview: Lily Tomlin, Badass GRANDMA
Grandma is by far the best film to come from writer/director Paul Weitz, the mind that brought us such films as the 90s sex romp, American Pie, and the feel-great Nick Hornby adaptation About a Boy. The triumph of his...
AnarchyVision: Talking SPRING BREAKERS, ADMISSION, and OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN
This week saw a bunch of films worth talking about, including what for me is the first non-awful Harmony Korine film Spring Breakers, the innocuous and thus disappointing Admission, and the best goddamn movie of the weekend, Olympus Has Fallen...
Review: ADMISSION Allows Entry to An Agreeable, If Shallow, Experience
The latest film from director Paul Weitz sits comfortably alongside his earlier comic and ultimately melodramatic explorations of 30-something adult anxieties about parenthood, mid-career crises, and personal growth. As he himself grows older, though, Weitz's indulgence in soapy sentimentality is...
